Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.

We have some of the most passionate, vocal fans in the history of television.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.